Kundera


The Unbearable Lightness of Being
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
Immortality
The Joke
Laughable Loves
Life is Elsewhere
Identity
Ignorance
Slowness
Farewell Waltz
The Festival of Insignificance
The Art of the Novel
Testaments Betrayed: An Essay in Nine Parts
The Curtain: An Essay in Seven Parts
Encounter
Milan Kundera
“ A person who longs to leave the place where he lives is an unhappy person. That is why Tomas accepted Tereza’s wish to emigrate as the culprit accepts his sentence, and one day he and Tereza and Karenin found themselves in the largest city in Switzerland. ”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Milan Kundera
“ Because I'm happy that you exist at all, Elisabeth. Perhaps I love you. Perhaps I love you very much. But probably just for this reason it would be better if we remain as we are. I think a man and a woman love each other all the more when they don't live together and when they know about each other only that they exist, and when they are grateful to each other for the fact that they exist and that they know they exist. And that alone is enough for their happiness. ...more ”
― Milan Kundera, Laughable Loves

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